Any ideas or suggestions for making a set of beach boat blocks for Hobie 18 to protect hull.

Thanks, Jeb

Hi Jeb, Are you looking for Hull chocks to rest under your sterns while the boat is sitting on your beach wheels or are you looking for something more permanent i.e., something you can use to raise your boat up off the sand while not in use?

go to a good sewing fabirc store and find the most dense, hard foam they have... or go online and there's lots of places....

get something between 2 and 4 inches thick.

cut to size... use PL construction adhesive (Lowes) to glue it to a piece of 2x6 or 2x8 lumber... and set your sterns on them.... same for the bows.

few bucks and few hours and you're good for a few years.

i've been doing it for the year and works great... you want a closed cell foam, one that doesn't absorb water.

figure out a way to put a bungee and catch on it, bungee over the hull.

i use this under my hobie 18 sunbrella blue cover....

sand really isn't so bad, it's the summer on the beach when the weedwacker guy comes around and all that green wet grass flies into my hulls, sticks and dries on... you can sail all day and it isn't coming off....

... that keeps the boat up off the ground enough to slide the beach-wheels under the bows ...

... and YES ... I'm one of those guys w/ a weedwacker ... and I tell everyone ... feel free to move your boat and trim the grass around your boat, yourself ... but if you don't ... it will be done by me AND/BUT I will not move your boat if the grass gets too high and needs to be cut. Now if I'm there and have my weedwacker w/ me that day and YOU move your boat then I'll cut the grass then and you can put your boat back in place and tie it down ... (to the ground anchors that I installed for you!!! no catamaran is allowed to remain on our beach/lawn/field w/o being tied down!!!)

Yes, Harry, I do understand... I'm the Fleet Capt for Fleet 70 and Ocean Springs Yacht Club (hosted the 2011 NACs and doing mid-Winters in April)....

... and yes I installed 80% of our tie downs after <hurricane> Katrina and I get mad when folks don't tie down their boat 'cause it'll damage everyone elses....

... nothing personal about you weedwhacking... but if you don't cover your boat or lift it up or move it... indeed the grass makes a mess of the hulls. Nice to have grass on the beach, however... and the hose reaches right over to where I tie down, so although she lives on the beach almost year round... she gets a bath after every sail, is up on foam blocks, and under a nice cover.